Review #68
A former MP, Jack Reacher, now a wanderer without an address, a phone, or an e-mail address, discovers that someone has deposited $1,030 in his bank account and quickly deduces that the money represents a call for help from Frances Neagley, a sergeant in Reacher's old special investigators unit. (1030 is the MP's code for urgent assistance needed.)
Calvin Franz, a former MP, is dumped from a Bell 222 helicopter three thousand feet above the California desert floor. It turns out that Franz was not the only member of the army's special investigation unit, headed by Reacher, to meet the same fate. Four of the eight members of the unit have been killed, and Neagley is rounding up the survivors to avenge their colleagues and, thus, live up to the group's motto: "You don't mess with the special investigators".
This latest Jack Reacher thriller marks a significant departure from the rest of the series. Lee Child fans know Reacher only as a loner, a tough guy with his own agenda who falls into stranger's problems, solves them, and moves on. But here we see him functioning as part of a team and it reveals new and fascinating aspects to his character.
As usual, the action is intense, the pace unrelenting, and the violence unforgiving.
I love Jack Reacher stories!
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